Movies like Cutting Class
If Cutting Class's mix of high school, psychopath and serial killer stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Cutting Class's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Scream
1996 · Directed by Wes Craven · 112 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: high school, serial killer, slasher · Also horror and mystery
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
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Se7en
1995 · Directed by David Fincher · 127 min8.4
Why you'll like itWith Brad Pitt · Shares: psychopath, serial killer
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the…
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Psycho Killer
2026 · Directed by Gavin Polone · 91 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer, slasher · Also horror and mystery
Following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible is a sadistic serial…
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Psycho II
1983 · Directed by Richard Franklin · 113 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: psychopath, serial killer · Also horror and mystery · From the same decade (1980s)
Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?
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Scream 4
2011 · Directed by Wes Craven · 111 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer, slasher · Also horror and mystery
Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.
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Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994 · Directed by Wes Craven · 112 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: psychopath, slasher · Also horror and mystery
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Directed by Jonathan Demme · 119 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: psychopath, serial killer
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for…
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Fright Night
1985 · Directed by Tom Holland · 107 min7.0
Why you'll like itWith Roddy McDowall · Also comedy and horror · From the same decade (1980s)
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.
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Trick 'r Treat
2007 · Directed by Michael Dougherty · 82 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer · Also horror and comedy
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank,…
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Spontaneous
2020 · Directed by Brian Duffield · 102 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: high school · Also comedy and horror
When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last.
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Jeepers Creepers
2001 · Directed by Victor Salva · 90 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: slasher · Also horror and mystery
On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.
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Whistle
2026 · Directed by Corin Hardy · 100 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: high school · Also horror and mystery
When a misfit group of unwitting high school students stumbles upon a cursed Aztec Death Whistle, they discover that blowing it unleashes a terrifying sound that summons their future deaths to hunt them down.